Evelyn Liu was born Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town created by the U.S. government during WWII to build the atomic bomb. She is the daughter of a mechanical engineer in an extended family of cousins, aun ...Show More
Evelyn Liu was born Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a town created by the U.S. government during WWII to build the atomic bomb. She is the daughter of a mechanical engineer in an extended family of cousins, aunts and uncles who are engineers. Her upbringing was conservative: Southern and traditional Chinese. She was also a tomboy and spent her childhood hiking and camping in the Smoky Mountains.Evelyn excelled in academics. In junior high, she was voted "Most Likely to Succeed." In her high school years, she attended Governor's School for International Studies and was a delegate to the North American Model United Nations in Washington D.C. She was also the "Teen Times" columnist in the city newspaper The Oak Ridger. Evelyn took only advanced classes in high school. She scored the highest possible score on every national AP exam, which gave her enough credits to place out of math and science entirely at UCLA before beginning her freshman year.Instead of joining her family tradition of engineering, she decided to pursue liberal arts and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English. Ironically, after getting her B.A, she went to work for NBC as a broadcast engineer, handling jobs from chyron C.G. to programming a 16-screen video wall. She made her mark during the O.J. Simpson trial, where she worked 80-100 hour weeks for the duration of both trials.After the verdicts, she took a couple of weeks off and traveled around the nation. She fell in love with New York City, promptly quit her job and moved to Manhattan. Soon after her move, a photographer asked to shoot photos of her. Those pictures caused a career change from working behind the camera to working in front of the camera. She was picked up by NYC modeling agents and began working as a fitness model. Evelyn is known for her six-pack abs definition.She also explored other career paths. She worked in the financial sector for automotive legend Malcolm Bricklin in his quest to bring Chinese cars into the U.S. She worked in the real estate field where she held a NY real estate salesperson license and NY state notary public license. She worked in IT technical support troubleshooting and fixing software issues directly and through remote interface.Evelyn continued to model, which led to an interest in acting. She immediately got her SAG & AFTRA cards, which totaled her career union memberships to 5: National Association of Broadcast Employees & Technicians (NABET-CWA), Director's Guild of America (DGA), International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), Screen Actor's Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). Hide
